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I still don't know what happened... I made the decision to part out my Laguna track build to "take a break" from owning/building/maintaining a track car for 2015 and before I even had all the parts in the mail I was driving this stupid little yellow Miata... for $700.

See, I made the mistake of searching for "Miata" on my local CL during my partout and found this yellow 1992 with hardtop listed for $1700. I then also made the mistake of showing that ad to Tim (Girth Brooks) who insisted that we go buy the car ASAP, so we went and looked at it that night. It turned out that it was originally red with a shitty yellow respray and the soft top was garbage so we talked the dude down to $1300. Tim scored the hardtop and I kept the car as a cheap little DD.

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So I drive it ~40 miles home on I10 and it shakes like a crackhead, the belts squeal for 5 minutes every morning and it burns oil for the same duration. I decide to pull some parts from my for sale ad to sit on for this new, accidental "build."

First things first, Tim wants his top.

(sorry, altezzas are gone... for now.)

I drive it like this for a week or so but it starts to get real, real cold... Having never owned a Miata with a convertible top, the whole thing is foreign to me but after carefully studying 1 soft top replacement how-to for 2 minutes I decide that installing my $100 eBay canvas replacement soft top that night was the best idea ever.

5 hours later:

It is now much, much warmer in there but still super fucking boring. The car came with speakers but no head unit so I fixed that with an eBay headunit-less install.

Another week or two go by and I'm growing tired of driving around a stock "yellow" Miata so I install my leftover Swag pack #1: GC/Bilstein combo and GV rep lip.

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Nabbed some Drag DR54s, I've always wanted a set but where I live no one sells wheel outright... they need cash plus wheels in trade? These don't seem to pop up often but when they have I've only had cash, not "steelies plus cash." **** me, right?

They'll be perfect for street duty, 15x8.25 DR54s with 205/50 NeoGens. I still have my C3ms for track wheels but I won't be needing them for a while...

Also happened upon some APR mirrors for pretty cheap. I tossed them on today just because and they didn't sit as bad as I thought they would without the Slick Auto kit, I was expecting much worse? I might just fab up some ABS bases and call it a day, we'll see.

Zero felonies. One deportation.

I'll have to take my door panels off and try mine out with the universal mounts that APR includes with their mirrors.
Your mounts look to be the same as the ones that were included with my new mirrors...APR GT3 Mirrors by Austin Rajki, on Flickr

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I figured I'd start a thread of my own to catalog my plans for my 2002 Laser Blue, otherwise known as The Tick:
I just paid him off at the beginning of the month and am thinking of mods that I'd like to do to "finish" him off. Of course, I can't just go mod crazy. My philosophy is to make...

Decided to finally start a modification thread on here. I don't post this stuff many places but since I am now here quite a bit I figured why not share?
I came about my gearhead status a little later than some do. Not quite sure what caused it. I did help my dad work on cars when I was...

I figured it was time to move my projects from my own personal Facebook page to the pages of Club Roadster for everyone to enjoy along with allowing me to archive it in a better fashion than just some personal Facebook posts.
To give some background context, I put out some feelers to some good...

Well this is my first real build and im doing it with a car I have wanted for a long long time.. .to give a little background I have a 91 red Miata with 87000 miles on it. . no rust got it for a great deal and I see this car becoming something truly amazing one day. .so lets get into it.
I...

I did this to my last NA:
Not gonna do that again.
So I bought another one:
Meet Riley the 97' NA. 77,264 on the ODO when I bought it. 100% bone stock, right down to the factory soft top. AC/PC, power windows, power mirrors and a torsen. AC still works surprisingly. Not a spot of rust...